This is http://www.essayz.com/a9805212.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %COERCIVE DISHONEST MANIPULATION PERCEPTION FEEL+980521 %PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITY COLLUSIVE GAMES EVIL+980521 %RECOGNIZE NAME FREEDOM COMMUNICATION DIALOGUE SIN+980521 %VIOLENCE WAR TERROR DOUBLE BINDS INSANITY HEALTHY+980521 %SICKNESS ILLNESS CONTENTION COMPETITION FAILURES 980521 It is exceedingly difficult to develop and maintain both personal and communal integrity --- so long as we are unable to recognize, name and honestly talk about the many ways in which some people manipulate our: PERCEPTIONS ASSUMPTIONS BELIEFS ATTITUDES CONVICTIONS COMMITMENTS INSTINCTS DESIRES PROMISES COMMANDMENTS EXPECTATIONS ASPIRATIONS STATEMENTS ARTICULATIONS ANXIETIES AFFIRMATIONS HOPES FEARS RELATIONSHIPS FRIENDSHIPS LOYALTIES INTIMACIES EMOTIONS REFLECTIONS OBJECTIONS OBJECTIVITY SELF-ESTEEM ROLES MENTORING MODELING DRAMAS PLAYS GAMES COLLUSIONS DISHONESTY DECEPTIONS RULES LAWS LEGISLATIONS Manipulations are disintegrative when they entail personal: COERCION DISHONESTY DECEPTION ARROGANCE SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS JUDGEMENTALISM CONDEMNATIONS EXCLUSIVITIES REJECTIONS EXCOMMUNICATIONS ALIENATIONS VIOLENCE FRAGMENTATIONS RIDICULE SHAMING GUILTING CRUCIFIXION DERISION Physical coercion and violence are only the most obvious forms of coercion and violence. They violate the physical integrity of persons and communities. Other forms of coercion and violence are suggested by words such as: ECONOMIC BUSINESS POLITICAL EDUCATIONAL RELIGIOUS SEXUAL SCIENTIFIC TECHNOLOGICAL SCHOLARLY ENVIRONMENTAL DIPLOMATIC LEGISLATIVE REGULATIVE ADMINISTRATIVE MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL TRADITIONAL RITUALISTIC We will do well and be well when we recognize, name, describe and honestly talk about the various forms of coercion and violence, the many ways in which they function, and the alienative aspects of each form and way. In the absence of such recognitions, naming, descriptions and dialogue --- we are likely to play collusive games of mutual self-deception about what is happening to us. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================